[2] Design for a house, 1791, unexecuted

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  - House of the Bush, Midlothian: designs for a house and stables for Robert Trotter, 1791, executed in part (9)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/86

Purpose

[2] Design for a house, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Upper: Part elevation, part section showing the rear elevation of the house with a longitudinal section of the service range extending from the rear. The rear elevation comprises a two-storey building with corner, pepper-pot turrets and a large circular tower in the centre with a pyramidal roof, with crenelations. The section shows two, two-storey ranges with pitched roofs connected by a central corridor with a lean-to roof Lower: Principal (first) floor plan of a house, same as SM Adam 35/88 with minor changes including windows, a niche in the circular room and a corridor linking to the rear staircase. The placement of openings in the service wing are also different

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(in pencil) Right copy / (verso) no 3

Signed and dated

30/12/1791
Edin^r 30^th / Dec^r 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink and lemon yellow on laid paper (298x491)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1992, p. 5
King, volume 1, 2001, pp. 394, 406
King, volume 2, 2001, p. 161
Further literary references in scheme notes

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